At Swedish start-up hub Epicenter, workers can get implanted with microchips that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.

Miners sift through hundreds of kilos of sand and clay, gathering roughly a quarter of a gram of gold dust. By Alex Wheeler.

Politicians and economists lament that certain alpha regions -- SF, LA, NYC, Boston, Toronto, London, Paris -- attract all the best jobs while becoming..

Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs. The South’s manufacturing renaissance comes with a heavy price. By Peter Waldman.

In noisy, open-plan offices, overheard conversations are part of working life. But there’s a difference between overhearing and eavesdropping, writes Alina Dizik

Change is hard. Getting a great plan past the boss’s desk is even harder.

How the “radium girls” revealed the danger of radiation and fought for safety standards. By Sarah Zhang.

‘As long as you get your 8 hours in.’ From the second you walk into a classroom, you’re taught to structure your day around an 8-hour block. And it’s no different once you move into the working world.

The work-anywhere, travel-the-world fringe lifestyle is going mainstreamand these apps, services, and events are here to help.

As a cleaner, Michele Kirsch brings insights from her writing career to her current job – and reveals some home truths.

Most rich countries hire back workers after a recession. The U.S. replaces them with machines. By Noah Smith.

As more cities and states raise their minimum wages, researchers question how much difference the changes will make for the working poor.

Dr. Paul Kelley, a leading researcher at Oxford University, has recently discovered that the most common form of modern day...

From Sunday, French companies will be required to guarantee their employees a “right to disconnect” from technology as the country seeks to tackle the modern-day scourge of compulsive out-of-hours email checking. On 1 January, an employment law will enter into force that obliges organisations with more than 50 workers to start negotiations to define the rights of employees to ignore their smartphones.

Einstein and Feynman ushered me into grad school, reality ushered me out. By Bob Henderson.

Time taken to travel to and from work at the beginning and end of each day should count as working time under the law, according to the Europe’s highest court. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that workers without a fixed office should be able to charge for the time such journeys last, whereas at present they are not allowed to do so. It could mean that companies employing such workers as electricians, gas fitters, care workers and sales reps could be in breach of EU working time regulations...

Each state determines its own workers’ compensation benefits, which means workers in adjoining states can end up with dramatically different compensation for identical injuries. An amputated arm can literally be worth two or three times as much on one side of a state line than the other.

“The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015.” By Martha Mendoza.

Trump’s company battled unions during his campaign, but the deal ends a bitter dispute over pay at his Las Vegas hotel and eases discord at his D.C. property. By Jonathan O'Connell and Drew Harwell.

The American medical system requires dangerous feats of sleep deprivation. It doesn’t have to. By James Hamblin.